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Design management : exploring fieldwork and applications (2007)
Book
Jerrard, R., & Hands, D. (2007). Design management : exploring fieldwork and applications. Routledge Taylor & Francis

Quantifying and assessing the value of an organization’s design department can be problematic. The tools traditionally used by auditors are usually insufficient to ‘measure’ either the value of design projects or their influence within an organizatio... Read More about Design management : exploring fieldwork and applications.

Introduction - Italy : a contested polity (2007)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Rhodes, M. (2007). Introduction - Italy : a contested polity. West European Politics, 30(4), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380701500207

Ten years after the last special issue of West European Politics dedicated to Italian politics, it is possible to extend and refine the framework used in that issue to document and explain the trajectory of change in Italian politics since the early... Read More about Introduction - Italy : a contested polity.

REdGENERATION: art, enterprise, local knowledge and the curriculum (2007)
Journal Article
Haywood, P., & Ingleson, S. (2007). REdGENERATION: art, enterprise, local knowledge and the curriculum. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 2(5), 99-108

The theme of this paper is engagement in art as a stimulant to enterprise education with young people. Reflecting on their experiences of initiating and managing the case study outlined, the paper describes a process of arts intervention in a school... Read More about REdGENERATION: art, enterprise, local knowledge and the curriculum.

Cultural change and ordinary life (2007)
Book
Longhurst, B. (2007). Cultural change and ordinary life. Open University Press

This ground-breaking book offers a new approach to the understanding of everyday life, the media and cultural change. It explores the social pattern of ordinary life in the context of recent theories and accounts of social and cultural change. Br... Read More about Cultural change and ordinary life.

Trends in contemporary Italian narrative 1980-2007 (2007)
Book
Ania, G., & Hallamore-Caesar, A. (2007). Trends in contemporary Italian narrative 1980-2007. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The ‘new Italian narrative’ that began to be spoken about in the 1980s was not associated with a single writer or movement but with an eclectic and varied production. The eight essays that make up this volume set out to give a flavour of the breadth... Read More about Trends in contemporary Italian narrative 1980-2007.

Apocalypse and dystopia in contemporary Italian writing (2007)
Book Chapter
Ania, G. (2007). Apocalypse and dystopia in contemporary Italian writing. In G. Ania, & A. Hallamore-Caesar (Eds.), Trends in contemporary Italian narrative (155-181). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

"To explore the womb, or tomb, or dreams; all these are usual Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press: And always will be, some of them especially When there is distress of nations and perplexity Whether on the shores of Asia, or in the Ed... Read More about Apocalypse and dystopia in contemporary Italian writing.

A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy (2007)
Journal Article
Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2007). A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy. West European Politics, 30(4), 670-691. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380701500223

Of all the issues that have been regarded as necessary to stabilising Italian politics following the dramatic upheaval of the 1990s, none has been more important than constitutional and institutional reforms. Yet, there has been an unqualified failur... Read More about A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy.

In the frame : investigating the use of mobile phone photography in museums (2007)
Journal Article
Leighton, D. (2007). In the frame : investigating the use of mobile phone photography in museums. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 12, 308-319. https://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.320

The ubiquitous use of mobile phone technology to capture photographic images has rapidly become an accepted feature of our social and cultural lifestyle. From the capture of photographic images in a social setting to the evening news reports of the... Read More about In the frame : investigating the use of mobile phone photography in museums.

Strategic planning as region building on the eastern periphery of the EU (2007)
Journal Article
Smith, S. (2007). Strategic planning as region building on the eastern periphery of the EU. European Planning Studies, 15(8), 1007-1025. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654310701448154

This article describes how region-building is performed by four strategic planning initiatives in north-eastern Slovakia, highlighting a tension between balanced and concentrated development perspectives in Slovak regional policy. The plans are read... Read More about Strategic planning as region building on the eastern periphery of the EU.

Design and manufacture for sustainable development in Wales (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Thomas, A. (2007, July). Design and manufacture for sustainable development in Wales. Presented at Fifth International Conference on Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development (Sustain 07), Loughborough University, UK

Globalisation and labour struggle in Asia: a neo-gramscian critique of South Korea's political economy (2007)
Book
Moore, P. (2007). Globalisation and labour struggle in Asia: a neo-gramscian critique of South Korea's political economy. I.B. Tauris Publishers

Korean development has not occurred in a vacuum, but is a specific series of events that provide insight into the way that international struggles for hegemony affect local environments. Ongoing struggle between workers and the state in the former 'h... Read More about Globalisation and labour struggle in Asia: a neo-gramscian critique of South Korea's political economy.

Risky business: when a CRM vendor masqueraded as an ERP specialist (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, M., & Light, B. (2007, June). Risky business: when a CRM vendor masqueraded as an ERP specialist. Presented at European Conference on Information Systems, St Gallen, Switzerland

Taking a social shaping perspective we unpack the development trajectory of a packaged software product to show, that contrary to mainstream accounts, design is not completely specified a-priori and that the process continues throughout implementat... Read More about Risky business: when a CRM vendor masqueraded as an ERP specialist.

Negotiating conflict: Rif'a Rfi' al-TahTwī and the translation of the 'other' in nineteenth-century Egypt (2007)
Journal Article
Salama-Carr, M. (2007). Negotiating conflict: Rif'a Rfi' al-TahTwī and the translation of the 'other' in nineteenth-century Egypt. Social Semiotics, 17(2), 213-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330701311496

This paper analyses the role of the translator in the representation of alterity and the construction of national identity, with reference to the work of a nineteenth-century Egyptian translator, essayist and educationalist, Rif'a Rfi' al-TahTwī (180... Read More about Negotiating conflict: Rif'a Rfi' al-TahTwī and the translation of the 'other' in nineteenth-century Egypt.

Thomas Bywater Smithies and the British Workman : temperance education and mass circulation graphic imagery for the working classes, 1855-1883 (2007)
Thesis
Murray, F. Thomas Bywater Smithies and the British Workman : temperance education and mass circulation graphic imagery for the working classes, 1855-1883. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis focuses on the British Workman and its proprietor Thomas Bywater Smithies. The British Workman was the most popular and widely distributed of all the illustrated temperance journals issued during the second half of the nineteenth century... Read More about Thomas Bywater Smithies and the British Workman : temperance education and mass circulation graphic imagery for the working classes, 1855-1883.

The translator's habitus and shifts : a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury', 'Go Down Moses' and 'Absalom! Absalom!' (2007)
Thesis
Taghavi, M. The translator's habitus and shifts : a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury', 'Go Down Moses' and 'Absalom! Absalom!'. (Thesis). University of Salford

The present study enquires into the fundamental issue of the translator's habitus (Bourdieu 1990). We take up John B. Thompson's synthetic translation of the concept of habitus (1991) while exploring descriptive explanatory interpretive hypotheses... Read More about The translator's habitus and shifts : a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury', 'Go Down Moses' and 'Absalom! Absalom!'.